State election in Lower Saxony in 1947
The first election to the Lower Saxony state parliament took place on April 20, 1947.
initial situation
After the end of the Second World War , the British military government founded the present state of Lower Saxony with Hanover as the state capital on November 1, 1946 from the formerly independent states of Braunschweig , Hanover , Oldenburg and Schaumburg-Lippe . Appointed state parliaments had been set up in the four predecessor countries to control the government. Due to the new formation of the country, the first free state election took place later than in the other countries. For the time being, the state parliament appointed by the military government , which met for the first time on December 9, 1946, was the legislature.
The late election date and the composition of the country from various predecessor states led to a specific party system. While the rest of the country was predominantly Protestant, the Emsland is dominated by Catholicism. This is where the Center Party developed its focus. Conversely, in the Protestant areas around Hanover and Braunschweig, the traditions of the German-Hanover Party , which was newly founded as the Lower Saxony State Party (NLP) and which as the German party celebrated the greatest success in its history in this election, continued to have an impact . Both parties reduced the result of the non-denominational new party CDU, which achieved an extraordinarily poor result in Lower Saxony compared to other countries.
Result
The turnout was 65.1%.
| Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) | 1,066,380 | 43.4% | 65 |
| Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) | 489,322 | 19.9% | 30th |
| German Party (DP) | 440.467 | 17.9% | 27 |
| Free Democratic Party (FDP) | 215,805 | 8.8% | 13 |
| Communist Party of Germany (KPD) | 138,977 | 5.6% | 8th |
| German Center Party (DZP) | 101.283 | 4.1% | 6th |
| German Conservative Party - German Right Party (DKP-DRP) | 7,245 | 0.3% | - |
consequences
The Prime Minister, Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf (SPD), appointed by the military government, was confirmed in office by an all-party government made up of the SPD, CDU, FDP, KPD and the center. In 1948 the FDP, the DP and the KPD left the government , in 1950 the CDU. The election victory ushered in an eight-year reign of the SPD: in 1955 a bourgeois government was formed for the first time.
See also
swell
Individual evidence
- ^ Thomas Bräuninger , Marc Debus : Party competition in the German federal states, 2011, ISBN 3-531-18101-7 , page 106, online
